Lourdes Valentina Figuera Morales (born 16 June 2000) is a Venezuelan model and

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who represented Venezuela at Miss Grand International 2019 where she won the title. She is the first Venezuelan woman to win the

Miss Grand International Miss Grand International is a beauty pageant franchise based in Thailand. It consists of the annual national pageant Miss Grand Thailand, as well as the international competition Miss Grand International, to which participating rights are licen ...

title.

Personal life

Figuera was born in Puerto La Cruz,

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on June 16, 2000 with her twin sister, Verónica. She is a model and also an

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student at Santiago Mariño Polytechnic University Institute in Puerto La Cruz.

Pageantry

El Concurso by Osmel Sousa 2018

In 2018, Figuera and her twin sister participated in El Concurso by

Osmel Sousa Osmel Ricardo Souza Mancilla (born 26 September 1946) is a Cuban-Venezuelan beauty pageant entrepreneur, and the former president of the Miss Venezuela Organization. Prominently known for his excellence in both pageantry and advertising, Sousa ...

; a Venezuelan beauty contest and reality show. Figuera won the competition and rose to Miss Grand International 2019 as a contestant.

Miss Grand International 2019

Figuera represented Venezuela in Miss Grand International 2019 and won the competition, held on 25 October 2019 at the Poliedro de Caracas in

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

, when she was crowned by outgoing titleholder Miss Grand International 2018,

Clara Sosa María Clara Sosa Perdomo (born 25 September 1993) is a Paraguayan model, TV Host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Grand Paraguay 2018 and was later crowned Miss Grand International 2018 in Yangon, Myanmar. She is the first Paraguayan woman ...

of Paraguay. On March 27, 2021, in

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, Figuera crowned

Abena Appiah Evelyn Abena Akuaba Appiah (born June 2, 1993) is a Ghanaian–American singer, model and beauty queen who was crowned Queen Beauty Universe 2016 and Miss Grand International 2020. She was appointed as Miss Grand USA and became the first Black ...

from the United States as her successor.

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